{"id":10354,"date":"2009-10-27T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-26T16:21:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T16:21:46","slug":"october-26-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/27\/october-26-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"October 26 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ooh, the <strike>Dick Armey<\/strike> TeaPartyExpress is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-teaparty26-2009oct26,0,1702805.story?track=rss\">coming to LA<\/a>. Yay, photos of right-wingers doing crazy things plastered over every newspaper. Now if the media would care to investigate their real numbers in proportion to people who want real health care reform, a strong economy with robust and serious regulation, well, that&#8217;d be nice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In the Prop 8 litigation in federal court, the marriage equality folks were able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/10\/25\/BASI1AABK3.DTL&#038;feed=rss.bayarea\">get discovery of some Prop 8 campaign material<\/a>. Much of it will be marked confidential, but we might get some interesting information from what&#8217;s made available.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/karma.fiskerautomotive.com\/\">Fisker Automotive<\/a>, an LA area electric car manufacturer-to-be, plans on making their cars in America, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-fisker26-2009oct26,0,7403169.story?track=rss\">perhaps at an old GM plant in Deleware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 San Jose is in a tough financial state, like many other cities. The city is now looking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/politics-government\/ci_13630621?source=rss\">for labor concessions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ooh, the <strike>Dick Armey<\/strike> TeaPartyExpress is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-teaparty26-2009oct26,0,1702805.story?track=rss\">coming to LA<\/a>. Yay, photos of right-wingers doing crazy things plastered over every newspaper. Now if the media would care to investigate their real numbers in proportion to people who want real health care reform, a strong economy with robust and serious regulation, well, that&#8217;d be nice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In the Prop 8 litigation in federal court, the marriage equality folks were able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/10\/25\/BASI1AABK3.DTL&#038;feed=rss.bayarea\">get discovery of some Prop 8 campaign material<\/a>. Much of it will be marked confidential, but we might get some interesting information from what&#8217;s made available.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/karma.fiskerautomotive.com\/\">Fisker Automotive<\/a>, an LA area electric car manufacturer-to-be, plans on making their cars in America, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-fisker26-2009oct26,0,7403169.story?track=rss\">perhaps at an old GM plant in Deleware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 San Jose is in a tough financial state, like many other cities. The city is now looking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/politics-government\/ci_13630621?source=rss\">for labor concessions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1153],"class_list":["post-10354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1153"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2H0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}